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CORRECTIONS OF NAMES OF COLOMBIAN PLANTS 
The report of “A Botanical Expedition to Colombia” in this 
Journat for June, pages 117 to 138, was written very soon after 
my return from that country and before there had been oppor- 
Pages 121, line 17, and 135, line 6— Read ¢ Clinicidia sepium (Jacq.) 
teud. is is the ‘ Robinia maculata" of Cortes’ “‘ Flora de 
Colombia,”’ page 242. : 
Page 126, line 5 fe ae Hydrotrida for Micranthe- 
mum. 
Page 127, line 15—The “yellow Gerardioid Scrophulariacea”’ 
appears to be a species of Alectra, a Brazilian genus not pre- 
ombia. 
Page 129, line 7—-Read Osteomeles for Crataegus. 
aes 130, line 9--Read Actanthus, of the Loranthaceae, for Lor- 
nthus 
F. W. PENNELL 
CONFERENCE NOTES FOR NOVEMBER 
The monthly conference of the scientific staff and Biren 
students was held on the afternoon of the sixth of November 
The program presented was as follows: 
“Fleshy cup-fungi of North America,” by Dr. F. J. Seav 
“Notes on recent collections of fungi,” by Dr. W. A. Murti 
The following is a summary of Dr. Seaver’ s review of his work 
on the fleshy cup-fungi of North Am 
“The so-called cup-fungi include a group of ascomycetes 
